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[hallway]

The BIL Mentoring Programme is desperately short of MENTORS

 

Do you have the time ( and patience) to help a beginner or intermediate player to improve ?

 

Tutors for Standard American ( especially) , Acol, SAYC and 2/1 are needed now

 

To register your interest , availability please complete the registration form -

 

Click Here

 

The assignments are made for a 6 month period, giving the student an hour or so a week at a time to suit the Mentor. They are expected to do any homework set for them.

 

A student who recently won a 4 week Quiz contest wrote:-

I really enjoyed the quizzes - and my success is due in no small part to Kathy, my BIL Mentor - I cannot speak too highly of her, she has really taught me to focus and plan my play. I am so fortunate to have had her assigned as my Mentor and to that end I must say how grateful I (and countless others) are

 

Another wrote:

I feel so fortunate that you have paired me with Cornelia in the mentor programme. She is a great teacher, and I feel that I am learning so much with her patient guidance. The mentor programme is really great, and it's wonderful that people like Cornelia are willing to volunteer their valuable time.

 

If this is not for you at this time maybe you know one of your Peers who would get satisfaction from helping the newcomers to achieve their dreams of becoming a good bridge player . Please ask them to leave me a message on BBO - send to BILmanager or email admin@bilbridge.com

 

Thanks

[OleBerg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sNJhX0x7yI

[Free]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sNJhX0x7yI

LOL

[hallway]

Oleberg - cant say I follow your link to a song about money

 

If you are asking do the mentors get paid ? - the answer is no

 

The BIL is a non profit entity

 

The Open Session Teaching Team who are currently providing the BIL players with some 48 hours of Free teaching sessions every week do not receive any payment. The Assistants who help with the announcements/player changes/housekeeping for those teachers do not receive any monetary reward

 

The Mentors (85) giving free one on one lessons to the BIL Players (175) every week do not receive payment and the Players do not pay to join the programme

 

The Tds who man the daily practice tournaments do not get paid

 

Those who contribute their skills in many areas - e.g. writing up / translating extensive help notes for BIL players to learn to use the BBO software effectively :: Organising Special Events :: the programmers who convert lessons into Bridge Movies :: BIL Friends Offering online one on one assistance to use the software :: the Quiz Masters :: Forum Coordinator and many others who all give innumerable hours every week to provide the services that we do to BBO's beginner / intermediate players do not get paid

 

And neither have any of the many who have gone before them over the past six years

 

We ( myself included looking after the Administration and the Mentoring Programme ) are all VOLUNTEERS - we each have our own reasons but it comes back to a common demoninator - we all love bridge and want to see a new generation of bridge players stay with the game and improve.

 

So Oleberg Mentoring BIL Players is a Labour of Love

 

Free ! good to 'see' you :) - I will put that link to your webiste in my next BIL Gazette

 

If you too want to give something back to the game - become a MENTOR